Hello, My company uses Squid as a proxy server for select users within our organization. This solution has been functioning without incident for approximately 1.5 years. Recently (within the past three weeks), we have been experiencing problems where the software fails to serve webpages. After approximately 60-90 from a web request, the software claims a DNS error and times out. The only fix we can initiate is to restart the fedora 7 server on which Squid resides. The error message is confusing because we can successfully resolve hosts on the machine with its IP settings (in other words, I do not believe it is a DNS issue). HELP! This is becoming a real problem for us. Also, the following is an excerpt from the cache.log. This log entries coincide with the issues we are experiencing. The following is only an example. Each time the problem occurs, the client and the web request is unique. WARNING: Closing client 192.168.2.231 connection due to lifetime timeout 2008/04/16 10:10:48| cld.countrywide.com:443 2008/04/16 10:10:48| WARNING: Closing client 192.168.0.136 connection due to lifetime timeout 2008/04/16 10:10:48| http://oascentral.yellowpages.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_sx.ads/anywho.c om/home@Bottom?ADST=null&CAT=null& 2008/04/16 10:10:48| WARNING: Closing client 192.168.2.59 connection due to lifetime timeout 2008/04/16 10:10:48| http://realestate.yahoo.com/Homevalues 2008/04/16 10:10:48| WARNING: Closing client 192.168.0.90 connection due to lifetime timeout 2008/04/16 10:10:48| tmsservice.calyxsoftware.com:443 Any help is greatly appreciated! ________________________________________ Michael J. Perrone Network Engineer / Systems Administrator Foundation Financial Group, LLC 904-861-1740 - Direct 866-659-3200 - Ext. 3740 - Toll Free 904-861-1702 - Fax PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL: This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipients, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this communication and destroy all copies.